Deadline: 01-Jul-2024
The Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALIGN) is currently looking for two to three partner organisations in the global South for a new project – Political Parties’ responses to Technology facilitated-GBV.
In particular, they are looking for research organisations with relevant experience and expertise and access to political party representatives to co-lead on the research design and co-deliver data collection and analysis, and dissemination of its findings locally and globally.
Research Methodology
- In particular, the project asks:
- How do political parties view TF-GBV, its significance, and its impact on female members?
- How do political parties in their ideological, structural and administrative diversity, respond to TF-GBV against women in politics?
- What factors shape their responses, including political systems, narratives and social norms?
- What can political parties do to change norms within their structures to create more supportive structures for women experiencing TF-GBV to stay and thrive in politics?
- This project will be a collaborative, co-created research across two or three country teams. During the initial stage of the project, methods will be co-designed and aligned to enable both context-specific learning and requirements, while at the same time facilitate cross-country learning and shared findings.
- It is expected that the study will be a multi-method enquiry, with at least some interviews and literature and document reviews. However, each applicant is encouraged to propose other participatory and innovative research methods which are relevant to their research questions, context, skills and preferences, while also manageable within the time and budgetary scope.
- There is no definition of politics or political participation that the project adopts at this stage with reference to ‘women in politics’. Applicants are encouraged to highlight which form of political participation or type of politics is relevant to them and should be the focus of the research. Final definition and scope will be decided collaborative at the start of the project.
- The study focuses on the countries of the global South. As such, it fills an important gap in research on political parties and gender equality, which has been dominated by the countries of the global North. It is further interested in selecting countries with diverse conditions, including with regards to:
- women’s active political participation – including existence of women-led political parties and governments, dominance of women’s wings, party level gender quota and legislation
- GBV and violence against women in politics online and technology-facilitate
- patriarchal gender norms
- history and presence of feminist movements and activism
- political competition for women’s vote
- social media use and internet penetration.
Funding Information
- The envisioned budget for each partner is between GBP £30,000 – £40,000.
- The project expected start date is August 2024, as soon as all research partners are selected and contracted, and will last approximately 15 months, including project dissemination.
Tasks
- The research partner organisation will be responsible for the following tasks. Please note, this list is indicative and not exhaustive and will be finalized in collaboration with the selected partners to ensure its appropriateness for each of the country contexts:
- Develop a research workplan for their respective country in collaboration with ALIGN and other partners.
- Co-design and pilot research instruments, in collaboration with ALIGN team and other partners.
- Complete any ethical reviews required domestically and at ODI.
- Conduct data collection, analysis and writing of a research report paper based on learning in their country (in English) and obtain peer review of the paper from peers with local context knowledge. This paper will be in the ALIGN format (they will provide publications and editing support).
- Deliver a presentation of learning at an ALIGN knowledge sharing event, webinar or virtual conference.
Eligibility Criteria
- ALIGN invites applications from organisations with a proven track record of research activities on issues such as women’s political participation, gender and politics, or political party analysis. It is essential that partners demonstrate their ability to access political parties and to collect data with and from political party leaders, members and administrators. Knowledge and experience with gender norms research is a distinct advantage.
- Applicants should also have in-depth knowledge and registered presence in one of the global South, multi-party democracies. These democracies can have varying levels of freedoms, rights and political competition, including for example, so-called free, as well as hybrid or partially free democracies.
- For administrative reasons, all applicants must have institutional or organisational set-up, meaning that individual researchers/consultants are unfortunately not able to apply. All organisations must also have indemnity insurance or a locally relevant equivalent that provides cover for professional services.
For more information, visit ALIGN.